John Edwards made a major speech on counter-terrorism today, and I use counter-terrorism not the "War on Terror," because that is the language that Edwards uses in rejecting Bush's failed traditional militarist approach.
The major initiative in the speech is a new global alliance, the Counter-terrorism Intelligence Treaty Organization (CITO), which will allow for a new era true cooperation in fighting terrorism. This organization, as Edwards says, will not be a panecea, but it will aloow for a whole new level of policy and security cooperation with our allies. A key difference is that the formal structure will allow our smaller partners more inluence and buy in to counter terrorism policies
CNN, un-characteristically, did a nice contrast between Edwards's polices and the leading Republican candidate Rudy Giuliani. Video after the break.
Take a look:
Notice how victim-y Giuliani sounds in comparison to Edwards, whining about the "war on us". Could he be any more passive?
The truth is their policies have failed as the Osama video only reminds us. Edwards has the confidence and strength to confront them directly on this failure. And the confidence and strenght to see the terrorist threat for what it is, a new asymtrical threat that needs new, confident and cooperative answers
[Update] Cross Posted at Boston for Edwards|
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